The Bird and The Bee

My favorite venue in the Minneapolis is definitely the Varsity. Such a comfortable and friendly place lit with table lamps and christmas lights, furnished with couches you just sink into and never want to leave and intimately sized to where the band can be an arms length away but still be a brilliant national or global act. So the fact that I haven't been there since October is disheartening.

While I perused iLike in hopes of a good concert, I accidentally bumped into The Bird and the Bee. I recalling seeing their name, but I hadn't stopped to listen. So naturally I played a song clip (Again and Again) and thought the harmony is beautiful. The lead singer resembles a breathy Rilo Kiley. The vocals and instrumentals feel like they belong in a colorful dream, trance like qualities but filled with undertones of bittersweet life. It's grace and mellowness compares to Belle and Sebastian's Sleep the Clock Around.

Enough said, I'm sold. Turns out they are playing at the Varsity come January. My quest is fulfilled.


I also think Gretchen should post something so I don't look like a blog hog.


The Bird and The Bee links:
Official Site
iLike Profile
MySpace